The best thing that Malcom ever did was the episode when he and I think Tucker thought they were doing to die and he recorded a message for his girlfriend back on Earth. The scene started towards the end of the recording and it was so heartfelt and emotional but for some reason Tucker looked bored and pissed off at it all. And then when he got to the end of the recording "and I'll always love you forever Amanada." Malcom goes "End Recording." pauses for a few seconds and then goes "Letter to Sarah. Dearest Sarah, by the time you hear this I will be dead..." and repeats pretty much the entire last message to the new girl. He had like six girlfriends back on Earth.The guy was a player.

Two adjacent threads with people shiatting all over Firefly in one and heaping praise on Enterprise in the other. I guess I have to start growing a van dyke because I've obviously slipped in to the evil mirror universe.

Quark: [about Rom] He needs a woman with a body and brains.Leeta: I have brains.Quark: Sure you do, honey. That's why I hired you. Now, eat up, and then take those brains back to the dabo wheel where the customers can get a good long look at them.

I do agree with the Worf in Insurrection. He kind of reminded me of Norm on Cheers in that he just wanders on to the bridge of the Enterprise when it's convenient even though he's normally several quadrants away...

(Doors to turbolift squeak open. The entire bridge crew turns to see who it is)Bridge Crew: "Worf!!!"Riker: "How does some blood-wine sound Worfie?"Worf: "I don't know. I usually finish it before it gets a word in!"

Major Kira: Yes, we get it, she's a former terrorist who is now a politician/diplomat/ambassador type, and has a lot of skeletons in her closet. The angry biatch attitude got very old, very quick, so much so that the one being who loved her so much to undo an entire timeline and kill dozens of the crew's future generations still left her ass to be with his people.

DamnYankees:I don't think putting Jake there is fair. His relationship with Captain Sisko was absolutely central to that show. Jadzia was far more useless.

I think I'm the only Trek fan who found "The Visitor" terribly boring. Tony Todd belongs in Candyman films and Michael Bay splosions. The aged makeup job they did on him was hideous, his voice became immediately annoying, and you end up having two of the most insufferable overactors in the same show.

Useless characters in no particular order:

Neelix - Easily the worst, the ship morale officer and chef. Who at the time had the hottest girlfriend on the show. Given the fact that two episodes resulted in him losing his voice (in one his lungs were stolen, in another Q2 removed his larynx), that should have been a hint for him to go away.

Chakotay - Dozens of Native American actors in Hollywood and they cast a Hispanic? Magua will eat his heart, even 70,000 light years away.

Harry Kim - An underachieving, clarinet-playing Asian who has a problem with women? If you're going to stereotype, at least do it right.

Kes: I didn't see Kes being a throwaway because prior to Six of Nine, her character had potential. Plus that voice...yummy.

Sisko: If he had turned the overacting/over-enunciating (yes, in a previous thread I realize this is his style given his theater days) I might have found him more appealing. He was a badass but overall his delivery ruined every scene.

Bashir: There were only a few episodes where he shone through as a compelling character, and not the ones where the other genetic weirdos were on board.

Major Kira: Yes, we get it, she's a former terrorist who is now a politician/diplomat/ambassador type, and has a lot of skeletons in her closet. The angry biatch attitude got very old, very quick, so much so that the one being who loved her so much to undo an entire timeline and kill dozens of the crew's future generations still left her ass to be with his people.

I liked Geordi on TNG, but as with pretty much 99% of bad characters in Trek, the problem was with the writing, not the actors. La Forge had a lot of potential that rarely got to shine with a good actor, but the continual "let's give Geordi an awkward dating moment" episodes created a bad trend.

Troi was a throwaway character - the quintessential one, I thought, but she was the other hotness once Tasha Yar left, they sort of had to keep her for gender balance.

Pulaski had a raw deal for one reason: Gates McFadden got pregnant and wanted to leave the show. They needed someone to fill the void while her contract was re-negotiated, and I thought she provided a good foil to Data and Picard while bringing something new - a bit of maturity - to the role. In a few of the Trek novels her character got a bit more backstory, but overall I don't feel it's right to castigate what was essentially a guest cast member - same with Guinan.

Given how little I've watched Enterprise, I agree with #1 on the OP; the entire cast could go spit aside from Phlox. He was the non-human who seemed the most humane, and I found John Billingsley did a wonderful job with it. Bakula was horribly miscast and I don't feel the series had enough stability or consistency for the characters to really get fleshed out in the way TNG and DS9 allowed it to develop.

"When audiences didn't buy that a beautiful Ocampa (portrayed by Jennifer Lien, who deserved better) would shack up with an alien who resembled a ginger Mr. T stricken with chicken pox, it paralleled the concerns the show's producers were having about the romance."

DamnYankees:I don't think putting Jake there is fair. His relationship with Captain Sisko was absolutely central to that show. Jadzia was far more useless.

Jake Sisko should get a pass for one reason: The Visitor. And Rapture. Making the decision to cut off Sisko's visions...but yes, I agree about Jadzia, at least until she and Worf had some scenes together. DS9 had the most solid of casts. TNG had Troi, VOY had 7of9, and ENT had T'Pol as nothing more than technobabble eye candy. Troi and Riker were two of the most useless characters ever seen in the Trek universe.